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Peter Black and South Wales West Liberal DemocratsRepresenting Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot, and Swansea |
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Health service wastage needs to be tackled to help eliminate debt
February 25, 2010 12:00 AM
Commenting on research by the BBC which has found that the new NHS Boards in Wales are expected to go £43 million over budget, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Minister Peter Black said:
"We know that there is wastage in the health service, that former Senior Managers are still being paid to do very little in the new boards and that reorganization is being viewed as a panacea when the Government should be tackling structural problems such as duplication of expenditure between social care and health, so it should not really be a surprise that they are going over-budget."
"We were originally told that these boards would be more cost effective and save us money, but as time goes by it appears that this reorganisation has been botched. The Government should have shown leadership and tackled the difficult issues such as waste and redundancies, but until they do, we will continue to see the financial situation in the health service deteriorate."
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